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fus⋅cous

   [fuhs-kuhs]
–adjective
of brownish-gray or dusky color.
Origin:
1655–65; < L fusc(us) dark, tawny, dusky + -ous
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fus·cous     (fŭs'kəs)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Dark brownish-gray in color.

[From Latin fuscus.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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fuscous

adjective
of something having a dusky brownish grey color 

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Fuscous

Fus"cous\, a. [L. fuscus.] Brown or grayish black; darkish.

Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like. --Burke.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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